Agriculture was important, and is important, because it creates a food supply for the people of a city, state, county, country, and the world. Agriculture keeps improving to meet the needs of higher food demands for the growing human population, with less and less farmland. I hope that this answer helped!
<span>However,both before and for a long time after the Potato Famine Catholic Irish emigrated to America in large numbers to escape the crushing poverty of their lives under mainland British rule from London.</span>